Product Integration Manager

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**** THE VALUE YOU’LL BRING:
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* As a Product Integration Manager, you will oversee integration efforts across core product categories and manufacturing operations, ensuring seamless launch execution and market success. Recognized as an expert in project management and product commercialization, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, resource alignment, and smooth product delivery.

Your role involves launching new products, refining business processes, implementing packaging and manufacturing changes, and overseeing production transitions. You will lead major projects using a highly structured approach, applying product integration principles to meet business, customer, and consumer expectations for successful market entry.

With a deep understanding of Smithfield’s product launch process and manufacturing management, you will guide teams in executing commercialization plans, solving business challenges, and ensuring timely market delivery. While directly managing multiple teams, you will influence action across departments, holding your teams accountable for deadlines and results —advancing Smithfield’s growth and profitability.
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* WHAT YOU’LL DO:

*** The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.*
* ** Product Commercialization and Launch Execution:
** You will lead efforts in category expansion by integrating business processes across core product lines and manufacturing operations. You will lead commercialization efforts for product, packaging, and manufacturing changes, ensuring seamless execution from development to market. With a focus on stakeholder alignment, you will establish launch plans, mitigate risks, propose achievable timelines, and hold teams accountable to meet deadlines. Your leadership will ensure projects are executed on time and within quality standards, proactively driving solutions for successful market fulfillment.
* ** Strategic Leadership and

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

** You will serve as an internal expert in project management and product commercialization, creating optimized timelines and leading teams to achieve product launch objectives. You will provide effective project management solutions that support business growth, cost reductions, production enhancements, and process simplifications while ensuring visibility of project progress for leadership engagement. You will engage stakeholders to champion implementation solutions and influence action on key deliverables.

You will lead cross-functional resources, ensuring clear communication of priorities across manufacturing plants and supporting functions. Additionally, you will assess performance challenges, adapt learnings to continuous improvements, and manage analytics, reporting, and documentation for project performance metrics.
* ** Risk Management and Problem-Solving:
** You will tackle complex business challenges, anticipate potential issues, lead course corrections, and implement effective solutions to ensure seamless progress. By evaluating project performance, escalating risks, and driving corrective action, you will keep commercialization efforts on track. You will also mitigate financial risks through close collaboration with Plant Operations and Corporate Food Safety Quality Assurance, ensuring the successful implementation of initiatives across core product categories and manufacturing operations.
* ** Operational Readiness and Manufacturing Execution:
** You will drive focus on manufacturing plant readiness for new production, ensuring seamless integration of new equipment with ramp-up and staffing plans. By confirming downtime needs, first production schedules, and start-up priorities, you will optimize operational efficiency. You will also ensure key financial inputs for costing, monitor production ramp-up, and oversee the approval process for first production protocols, ensuring product acceptance for market shipping.

Additionally, you will ensure that finished goods are positioned correctly at distribution centers for seamless shipment to customers.
* ** Process Development and Continuous Improvement:
** You will assess commercialization readiness across product areas, leading the discovery phase to define product codes,…